Logistics Analyst

**Duties & Responsibilities**
- Write or revise standard operating procedures for logistics processes.
- Identify opportunities for inventory reductions and inventory optimization through the analysis of part usage and back order trends.
- Monitor industry standards, trends, or practices to identify developments in logistics planning or execution.
- Enter logistics-related data into databases.
- Develop or maintain payment systems to ensure accuracy of vendor payments.
- Determine packaging requirements for storage and transportation. This is different from packaging design and engineering.
- Work with planners to determine parts availability and replenishment.
- Track product flow from origin to final delivery.
- Prepare reports on logistics performance measures.
- Maintain databases of logistics information.
- Maintain logistics records in accordance with corporate policies and trade compliance requirements.
- Communicate with or monitor service providers, such as warehouse service providers, air freight forwarders, global consolidators, customs brokers, or domestic trucking companies.
- Review procedures, such as distribution or inventory management, to ensure maximum efficiency or minimum cost.
- Provide ongoing analyses in areas such as warehouse handling and storage costs, back orders, or delivery processes.
- Manage systems to ensure that pricing structures adequately reflect logistics costing.
- Monitor inventory transactions at warehouse facilities to assess receiving, storage, shipping, or inventory integrity.
- Develop or maintain models for logistics uses, such as cost estimating or demand forecasting.
- Confer with logistics management teams to determine ways to optimize service levels, maintain supply-chain efficiency, or minimize cost.
- Compute reporting metrics, such as warehouse handling cycle time, order fulfillment rates, or inventory turns.
- Interpret data on logistics elements, such as availability, maintainability, reliability, supply chain management, strategic sourcing or distribution, supplier management, or transportation.
- Analyze logistics data, using methods such as data mining, data modeling, or cost or benefit analysis.
- Remotely monitor the transportation using Web-based logistics information systems to track packages.
- Coordinate with Transportation team to reorganize shipping schedules to consolidate loads to reduce freight costs while balancing fulfillment cycle time.
- Route or reroute freight in real time through coordination with freight forwarder for exception handling or for operational efficiencies.
- Monitor warehouse storage and coordinate with planner on aged inventory to reduce storage space to minimize cost.

**Basic Qualifications, Experience, Skills & Education Required**
- Degree in business, logistics or related field
- Proficient in MS Office in particular in MS Excel and Word
- Proficient in spoken and written English and Mandarin
- Good customer service skills with high level of business integrity
- Prior experience in Administrative work preferred
- Good team skills to be able to work with others (across all related departments or functions that has direct or indirect impact to area of work that affect order to delivery)
- Good resource deployment and planning skills.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Ability to multitask.
- Good knowledge of logistics, warehouse or supply chain knowledge.
- Good MS office skills.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, writing, interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to work in an autonomous environment
- Good project management knowledge and skill.
- Good vendor negotiation and management skill.